---The trouble is that you think you have time------Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe------It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---

"As Buddhists, we should aim to develop relationships that are not predominated by grasping and clinging. Our relationships should be characterised by the brahmaviharas of metta (loving kindness), mudita (sympathetic joy), karuna (compassion), and upekkha (equanimity)."~post by Ben, Jul 02, 2009

Congratulations Jeff!I'm still hoping you'll make good that threat of coming 'down under' for a visit!Take care good friend!Metta

Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

pink_trike wrote:Thanks, TheDhamma. I've been thinking about maybe getting a three-wheeler like that for a while (in pink, naturally). I'm through with my Evel Knievel two-wheeler days.

Hi Pink,

That's why I put that photo of the trike up; I was wondering if you were a fellow biker - triker. I only owned motorcycles and drove them more than cars during my single days. After getting married, my wife sold the bike and said if I wanted a motorcycle it had to be a trike. So we bought one that looks just like the one in that photo.

It had the Harley mufflers on it it and was very loud, so we sold it. The next trike we buy will probably be a yellow (partial to yellow) with the big luggage area in the back, most likely a Honda Goldwing trike -- they are very quiet.

"Trike" in my username refers to the three jewels and the three vehicles (pink refers to the union of red and blue which represents the union of wisdom and compassion - actually lavender, but too long to type all the time). Not into biker culture - I like that the energy footprint is very low, they're easy to find parking for, and in the past I've used riding a motorcycle as Chod practice - looking danger and impermanence spang in the eye with every ride (though I'm pretty much through with testing speed limits).

This is the one that catches my eye - Honda 1800 Spyder

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Okay, cool. I was wrong about the meaning of trike in your username, but you actually like trikes anyway.

They look great. I also like the low carbon footprint of motorcycles and trikes. But now some of the hybrid cars can get as good of a gas mileage as our motorcycles! But it is still more fun to ride a bike over a car.

"To reach beyond fear and danger we must sharpen and widen our vision. We have to pierce through the deceptions that lull us into a comfortable complacency, to take a straight look down into the depths of our existence, without turning away uneasily or running after distractions." -- Bhikkhu Bodhi

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -- Heraclitus

I had a great birthday. The older I get, the better they are. I was just sitting here thinking about birth - since that's what birthdays point at...and concluded that birth and life are just phenomenal, in every sense of the word. What an opportunity our lives give us.

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